#95: installations errors
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Reporter: porkedrons[at]gmail.com | Owner: duncan
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: 2009.2.0.2
Component: Generic source tarball | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by matthijs):
I've seen a similar error:
{{{
u...@haskell:/tmp/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2$ ./configure
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `i686-pc-linux-oldld':
machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh scripts/config.sub i686-pc-linux-oldld failed
}}}
The -oldld here seems to be caused by the fact that I have no ld installed
(so it cannot generate elf or a.out, so it is "old"). Installing binutils
gives me the same error as the original report, {{{config.guess}}} then
thinks my architecture is {{{i686-pc-linux-}}}. The problem here is that
{{{config.sub}}} cannot handle an architecture with more than three dashes
properly. Somewhere at the top, it splits the architecture into {{{$os}}}
and {{{$basic_machine}}} by taking everything after the final dash, so
{{{-linux}}} ends up in {{{$basic_machine}}}, which causes it to error
out.
Installing the Debian {{{binutils}}} package fixes my problem:
{{{config.guess}}} then returns {{{i686-pc-linux-gnu}}}. Since
{{{config.sub}}} has a special case for {{{-linux-gnu}}}, it splits this
properly and configure works.
I think the above captures the problem pretty nicely: {{{configure}}} does
not work when no build utilities are installed. I'm not sure whose fault
this is exactly or how to fix it...
This is slightly related to
[http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3612 GHC ticket #3612],
describing that GHC does not build without build utils either (though
because of completely different reasons).
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